There are two general attitudes among urbanists towards the transportation omnibus bill that Congress has been struggling to pass in recent years (?). Some, like Streetsblogs and a number of political advocacy groups, hope for swift passage because of the bill’s transit spending. Others, like Cap’n Transit, balk at all the highway spending, and [...]
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June 23rd, 2012 | Tags: dc, FRA, politics, transit | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment |  printable viewNot sure how this escaped me, but it seems that a few weeks ago, Rollin Stanley was announced as Calgary’s new chief planner. Rollin Stanley, you’ll recall, was the very vocal pro-urban growth planner in Maryland’s Montgomery County, north of Washington, DC, who resigned after these four sentences appeared in Bethesda Magazine: He has [...] June 12th, 2012 | Tags: calgary, dc, Maryland, planners | Category: Uncategorized | One comment | printable viewOver at Washington City Paper‘s Housing Complex blog, Lydia DePillis takes issue with DC’s car sharing policy – and namely, the decision to auction off on-street spaces to the highest (car-sharing) bidder, “rather than allow the market’s first mover—Zipcar—[to] have them all for free.” She writes: The bigger question, it seems to me, is whether [...] October 5th, 2011 | Tags: dc | Category: byline=Stephen Smith, car sharing | Comments are closed | printable viewSince Alon’s comment a few weeks ago that union work rules, not wages and benefits, are the real problem with labor unions at America’s transit authorities, I’ve been looking into the matter, which seems to be something that a lot of transit boosters don’t like to talk about. It’s an uncomfortable subject for two [...] May 15th, 2011 | Tags: Bay Area, dc, nyc, transit, unions | Category: Uncategorized | 46 comments | printable view1. NY Governor Cuomo promises the “most aggressive” strengthening of the state’s (read: NYC’s) rent laws. 2. Bronx <3 parking: “This community wants a moratorium on any more building until we get a parking lot.” “We don’t want any bigger buildings and we want parking space for everyone.” 3. Do people realize that “I don’t [...] April 29th, 2011 | Tags: dc, density, nyc, parking | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments | printable view1. The fact that we even have to have a debate over whether residential development should be allowed in Midtown, where new residents will have perhaps a smaller impact on transportation infrastucture than anywhere else in the country (they can either walk to work or do a reverse train commute), is pretty pathetic. 2. [...] April 29th, 2011 | Tags: Bay Area, dc, nyc, unions | Category: Uncategorized | 4 comments | printable viewOur friends at BeyondDC have made a nifty little simplified map of the DC zoning code (yellow is residential, red is commercial, gray is park/institutional/industrial) out of GIS data provided by the local government. It’s nice and all, but when you reduce such a beautifully complex and meticulous plan to a mere three colors, [...] 1. NYT reports on dense suburban projects being scaled back across Long Island not because of financing constraints or the recession, but because local governments are refusing to accept the density. At the end it cites AvalonBay as saying that after the its rebuke on the Island, it will reconsider “whether we would stay [...] April 25th, 2011 | Tags: Bay Area, dc, nyc, parking, transit, zoning | Category: Uncategorized | 6 comments | printable view |
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